Raver50032 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'll give you 21,000 home support for a mid-November Friday night fixture against Blackburn Rovers. Pissing it down with rain, roadworks on the A-38 and match on Sky Sports 3... Yes, they have a Sky Sports 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcTheObsession Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I think we'd lose around 10k off the home support. That would leave us averaging around 23-25k. The away games on the other hand would be a different story, new grounds for lots of us, much cheaper ticket prices, we'd sell out 90% of away games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'd still renew my ST. But I do think that our attendance would drop by around 10k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Probably around the same as they are now, bearing in mind that the ticket prices would come down quite a bit especially for away games. I wouldn't be so sure, I went to Hillsborough on saturday in the away end with a Wolves fan and we had to pay 26 quid each. The match finished 0-0 in a dire game Mcleish would have been proud of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 well in last 10 years 2 clubs with big following went down in Newcastle and Leeds and from outside looking in it seems tehy still got healthy crowds. If the unthinkable does happen this will be the time the club needs the fans 100% behind them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcTheObsession Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I wouldn't be so sure, I went to Hillsborough on saturday in the away end with a Wolves fan and we had to pay 26 quid each. The match finished 0-0 in a dire game Mcleish would have been proud of. £26 is a lot better than the majority of this season: £52 - Chelsea £45 - QPR £44 - Liverpool £40 - Fulham, West Ham, West Brom, Man City £36 - Spurs, Southampton £35 - Everton, Swansea, Arsenal That's well over half the away games just off the top of my head. Only reasonably priced games I can think of so far: £29 - Newcastle and Sunderland However travel costs a bomb as they are so far away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 thats 3/4 of the game and that a hell of a lot of money to fork out. Read a report that us and Wigan are best value pricewise in the league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexpayne Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 28k average if we went down, big promotion games and the shit would see sell outs. Away attendances would be huge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiezels Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 We'd pay for it in a few seasons when we got back into the league as all the youngsters just getting into footy would never see us on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I think the title of this thread is wrong. Personally support would not change at all, but attendances may well increase with ticket prices and more winnable games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 well in last 10 years 2 clubs with big following went down in Newcastle and Leeds and from outside looking in it seems tehy still got healthy crowds. If the unthinkable does happen this will be the time the club needs the fans 100% behind them Newcastle are a special case because there is exceptionally strong local loyalty to the club - much more so than with Villa tbh - and they came straight back up with a season in the Championship so successful that they were guaranteed promotion by mid-April. As has been discussed over and over, that is very much the exception - most clubs who are relegated struggle to get back and stay up in the premier league. Your other example, Leeds, gives more of a clue about what might happen to us. Back in 2001-2, for example, when they were riding high, they were regularly getting crowds of 39-40,000. This season they are getting between 17-25,000. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 They'd have to lower ticket prices, so there probably wouldn't be much of a drop off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Your other example, Leeds, gives more of a clue about what might happen to us. Back in 2001-2, for example, when they were riding high, they were regularly getting crowds of 39-40,000. This season they are getting between 17-25,000. but Leeds have been down there for nearly a decade, of course was going to take its toll on fanbase. I meant what was attendances like 1st season they went down. I imagine it was pretty high Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 A winning Villa Team will be well supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 A winning Villa Team will be well supported. Contrary to what the MANX say we do go to watch the Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 but Leeds have been down there for nearly a decade, of course was going to take its toll on fanbase. I meant what was attendances like 1st season they went down. I imagine it was pretty high About 25-30,000 in 2004-5, fell to 18-26,000 in 2005-6 (and that was with them getting to the play-offs). Support quickly drops away in lower leagues and the most likely outcome is we would take a while to get back up, looking at our current squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 So who would we sell/would want out if we did drop i wonder? & Who would we be buying to try & get straight back up? Who would come? Surely it would be a case of attracting the best players from the Championship & lower leagues...So nothing new there really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted January 22, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2013 Season ticket holders would drop to around 12-15k, Saturday 3pm the crowds would be around 30k-33k, midweek, late kick offs......20k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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